ROBERT

See also:

• FORMAN, ANDREW (c. 1465-1521)
• FORMAN, SIMON (1552-1611)

FORMAN

See also:

• HORTON, CHRISTIANA (c. 1696–c. 1756)
• ROBERT FORMAN HORTON (18J5– )
• HORTON, SAMUEL DANA (1844–1895)

HORTON (18J5– )  , British Nonconformist divine, was born in London on the 18th of September 1855 . He was educated at Shrewsbury school and New College, Oxford, where he took first classes in classics . He was president of the Oxford Union in 1877 . He became a fellow of his college in 1879, and lectured on history for four years . In 188o he accepted an influential invitation to become pastor of the Lyndhurst Road Congregational church, Hampstead, and subsequently took a very prominent part in church and denominational work generally . He delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale in 1893; in 1898 he was chairman of the London Congregational Union; and in 1903 of the Congregational Union of England and Wales . In 1909 he took a prominent part in the 75th anniversary celebration of Hartford Theological Seminary . His numerous publications include books on theological, critical, historical, biographical and devotional subjects .